Howard Davis Eberhart (August 16, 1906 – July 18, 1993) was an American engineer noted for his design of artificial limbs and other prosthetic devices.
National Academy of Engineering, Memorial Tributes: Volume 7 (1994);HOWARD DAVIS EBERHART;BY BORIS BRESLER, EGOR POPOV, EDWARD WILSON, AND ALEXANDER SCORDELIS University of California, In Memoriam, Howard Davis Eberhart, Civil Engineering: Berkeley Professor Eberhart was chairman of the Department of Civil Engineering at University of California, Berkeley and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. The University of California called Eberhart "one of UC Berkeley's most highly respected and acclaimed teachers in civil engineering, and a pioneer of research in artificial limbs". In 1977 Howard was elected to the National Academy of Engineering "for pioneering studies of human locomotion, application of structural engineering to prosthetic devices, and leadership of interdisciplinary engineering research."
Chronology 1906 born August 16 in Lima, Ohio 1929:B.S. degree in architecture, the University of Oregon 1935: M.S. degree in civil engineering, Oregon State University 1936: instructor, the University of California, Berkeley 1948: full professor of civil engineering, the University of California, Berkeley 1959-1963 and 1971-1974: chairman of the Department of Civil Engineering, the University of California, Berkeley 1974: retired from UC Berkeley
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